Ye of the Christian sect

Verse 1
Ye of the Christian sect,
By faith to Jesus join’d,
No mercy, or remorse expect,
No justice from mankind:
The world in every age
Their hate of Christ express,
And vent their antichristian rage
Against his witnesses.

Verse 2
But nothing shall offend
Or turn out of the way
You that on Jesus word depend,
And on his promise stay;
Forewarn’d, without surprize
Without concern or fear
Ye see the threatning storm arise,
Ye see your Saviour near.

Verse 3
Ye scorn the tyrants frown,
And to their wrongs submit,
And let them spurn, and tread you down,
As clay beneath their feet:
Beneath their rage ye fall
The victory to obtain,
All things endure, to conquer all,
And die with Christ to reign.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.’—[John 16,] v. 1." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 33.
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